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FILMS — JANUARY 2023
(Hawks 1938) Bringing Up Baby
(Qudaibergen 2019) “SOS d’un terrien en détresse” [live at World’s Best, USA]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “All By Myself” [live at World’s Best, USA]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Adagio” [live at World’s Best, USA]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Give Me Your Love” [live in New York]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Mademoiselle Hyde” [live in New York]
(Sakakibara 2022) Gudetama, An Eggcellent Adventure: Ep.3 ― Is That the Best
. . . This Country Has to Offer?
(Itô 2016) Erased: Ep.1 ― Flashing Before My Eyes
(Qudaibergen 2019) “My Swan [Аққуым]” [Music Video]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “My Star [Жұлдызым]” [live at D‑Dynasty, Moscow]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Lay Down” [live at D‑Dynasty, Moscow]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Jamaica [live at D‑Dynasty, Moscow]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Mademoiselle Hyde” [live at New Wave, Sochi]
(Glennon 1930) Paradise Island
(Hitchcock 1954) Dial M for Murder
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Adai [Адай]”
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Know [Знай]” [Live version]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Papa — Mama [Әкешім-анашым]”
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Stand Up” [live Moscow Concert]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Sinful Passion” [live Moscow Concert]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Know [Знай]” [music video]
(Blagden 1985) Tripods: Ep.22 — Blessings of the Cognosc
(Blagden 1985) Tripods: Ep.23 — The Cognosc Departs
(Mossop 2018) Imagination
(Quine 1965) How to Murder Your Wife
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Olimpico [Ogni Pietra]”
(Qudaibergen 2019) “The Crown [live at Fashion Week, Xi’an]”
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Only You” [Studio Version]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Couldn’t Leave” [Music Video]
(Qudaibergen 2019) “Across Endless Dimension” [film trailer]
(Woods 1970) Equinox
(Kubrick & Spielberg 2001) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(del Toro 2022) Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
(Rebane 1975) The Giant Spider Invasion
First-time listening for January, 2023
26447. (Friedrich Gulda) Play Piano Play [10 Übungsstücke für Yuko]
26448. (Glenn Gould) Piano Sonata
26449. (Glenn Gould) Five Short Pieces for Piano
26450. (Glenn Gould) Two Pieces for Piano
26451. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “SOS d’un terrien en détresse” [live at World’s Best,
. . . . . USA, 2019]
26452. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “All By Myself” [live at World’s Best, USA, 2019]
26453. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Adagio” [live at World’s Best, USA, 2019]
26454. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Give Me Your Love” [live in New York, 2019]
26455. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Mademoiselle Hyde” [live in New York, 2019]
26456. (Omar Apollo) Ivory
26457. (Quicksilver Messenger Service) Live at Fillmore Auditorium, November 5, 1966
26458. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “My Swan [Аққуым]” [Music Video, 2019]
26459. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “My Star [Жұлдызым]” [live at D‑Dynasty, Moscow, 2019]
26460. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Lay Down” [live at D‑Dynasty, Moscow, 2019]
26461. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Jamaica [live at D‑Dynasty, Moscow, 2019]
26462. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Mademoiselle Hyde” [live at New Wave, Sochi, 2019]
26463. (Zakir Husain & Ustas Sultan Khan) Sarangi and Tabla
26464. (Pentatonix) At Home EP
26465. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Adai [Адай]” [2019]
26466. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Know [Знай]” [Live version, 2019]
26467. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Papa — Mama [Әкешім-анашым]” [live, 2019]
26468. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Stand Up” [live Moscow Concert, 2019]
26469. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Sinful Passion” [live Moscow Concert, 2019]
26470. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Know [Знай]” [music video, 2019]
26471. (Paulinho DaViola) Foi Um Rio que Passou em Minha Vida
26472. (Ferruccio Busoni) Sonata #1 in E Minor for Violin & Piano
26473. (Futurecop!) The Adventures of Starpony EP
26474. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Olimpico [Ogni Pietra]” [live 2019]
26475. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “The Crown” [live at Fashion Week, Xi’an, 2019]
26476. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Only You” [Studio Version, 2019]
26477. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Couldn’t Leave” [Music Video, 2019]
26478. (Dimash Qudaibergen) “Across Endless Dimension” [film trailer, 2019]
26479. (Carl Czerny) Grande Sonate Brillante for Piano Four-Hands
26480. (Hania Rani) Home
26481. (Kishi Bashi) 151a
26482. (Arthur Sullivan) The Golden Legend, Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra
26483. (Ian Tyson) Cowboyography
26484. (Kishi Bashi) Omoiyari
26485. (Siksika Ramblers) Straight from the Rez
READING — JANUARY 2023
25071. (John Wilkins) The Discovery of a New World: or, a Discourse tending to Prove,
. . . . . that it is Probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon [1638]
25072. (Mike Curato) Flamer [graphic novel]
25073. (Richard Thompson, et al) In Search of Pleistocene Remains at the Gates of
. . . . . Europe: Directed Surface Survey of the Megalopolis Basin [article]
25074. (Matti Charlton) You’re Mine ― A True Story for Brave Little Ones [graphic story]
25075. (Eberhard Zangger & Serdal Mutlu) Putting the Luwian Culture on the Map
. . . . . [article]
25076. (Bennett Bacon, et al) An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and
. . . . . Phenological Calendar [article]
25077. (Matti Charlton) The Ballast Boy [novella]
25078. The Voynich Manuscript [facsimile]
25079. (Sachin Kundalkar) Cobalt Blue
25080. (Yvan Maligorne & Ambroise Lassalle) Iconographie funéraire de Narbonne:
. . . . . à propos d’un relief figurant un combat naval [article]
25081. (Xinyuan Zhang, et al) Mission Overview and Initial Observation Results of the
. . . . . X‑Ray Pulsar Navigation‑I Satellite [article]
25082. (Julian Winters) The Summer of Everything
25083. (Joseba Rios-Garaizar, et al) Late Prehistoric Coastal Settlement Patterns in the
. . . . . Cantabrian Region, Northern Spain [article]
25084. [2] (Michel de Montaigne) De l’amitié [original text] [read in Florio tr. at 9575]
25085. (Alex Sanchez & Julie Maroh) You Brought Me the Ocean [graphic novel]
25086. (Bert Groenewoudt, et al) Mapping Lost Woodland, An Attempt to Use the Spatial
. . . . . Distribution of Woodland-Related Place Names as a Proxy for Localizing
. . . . . Woodland in the Middle Ages [article]
25087. (Colin Legerton & Jacob Rawson) Invisible China ― A Journey Through Ethnic
. . . . . Borderlands
25088. (Nile Green) Kebabs and Port Wine: The Culinary Cosmopolitanism of Anglo-
. . . . . Persian Dining, 1800–1835 [article]
Tuesday, January 3, 2023 — The Remarkable John Wilkins
I do seriously, and upon good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying-chariot; in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it, as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum, and commodities for traffic. It is not the bigness of any thing in this kind, that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat.
This engine may be contrived from the same principles by which Archytas made a wooden dové, and Regiomontanus a wooden eagle.
I conceive it were no difficult matter (if a man had leisure) to shew more particularly the means of composing it.
The perfecting of such an invention, would be of such excellent use, that it were enough, not only to make a man famous, but the age also wherein he lives. For besides the strange discoveries that it might occasion in this other world, it would be also of inconceivable advantage for travelling, above any other conveyance that is now in use.
So that notwhithstanding all these seeming impossibilities, it is likely enough, that there may be a means invented of journeying to the moon; and how happy shall they be, that are first successful in this attempt?
― John Wilkins, The Discovery of a New World: or, a Discourse tending to prove, that it is probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon, with a Discourse of the Possibility of a Passage thither (published in 1638)
Though Wilkins published this half a century before the publication of Newton’s Principia, he had a pretty good grasp of gravitation, though it remained unnamed and its nature baffled him, and could picture well enough the behaviour of bodies in space. He explicitly stated that if there were a tunnel dug through the Earth that intersected its center and ended at its antipodes, an object thrown down it would come to rest, hovering, exactly at the center. Wilkins was a mathematician, and ten years after the Discovery of a New World, published a volume called Mathematical Magick, in which he explained the general principles of mechanics, speculated on possible technological advances in the future (including flight), and urged his readers to pursue scientific studies.
FILMS — DECEMBER 2022
(Capra 1937) Lost Horizon
(Frankenheimer 1966) Seconds
(Markle 1963) The Incredible Journey
(Bridges 1973) The Paper Chase
(Levin 1959) Journey to the Center of the Earth
(Sakakibara 2022) Gudetama, An Eggcellent Adventure: Ep.1 ― What a Drag…
(Williams 2009) Make the Yuletide Gay
(Marino 2018) Disenchantment: Ep.2 ― For Whom the Pig Oinks
(Ray 1985) Biohazard
(Trelfer 2022) Dark Corners Review: Biohazard
(Sakakibara 2022) Gudetama, An Eggcellent Adventure: Ep.2 ― So Dizzy
(del Toro 2022) Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
First-time listening for December, 2022
26420. (Ikue Mori) One Hundred Aspects of the Moon
Hip Hop: The Collection ― The Classics, Vol.1, Disk 1:
. . . . 26421. (Shawnna) “Can’t Break Me”
. . . . 26422. (Teriyaki Boys) “Tokyo Drift”
. . . . 26423. (Pretty Ricky) “Call Me”
. . . . 26424. (Pussycat Dolls) “I Don’t Need a Man”
. . . . 26425. (Salt N Pepa) “Push It”
. . . . 26426. (Fergie) “Fergalicious”
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READING — DECEMBER 2022
25053. (Nushin Arbabzadah & Nile Green) Between Afghan “Idolography” and Kafir
. . . . . “Autoethnography”: A Muslim Convert Describes His Former Religion [article]
25054. (George Magnus) Red Flags ― Why Xi’s China Is in Jeopardy
25055. (Claudia Chang) Inner Asian Pastoralism in the Iron Age: The Talgar Case,
. . . . . South-Eastern Kazakhstan [article]
25056. (Dan Davis) The Wolf God
25057. (Oula Seitsonen) Change and Continuity in the Holocene Lithics Use in the
. . . . . Nyanza Province, Kenya: A General Overview [article]
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